Improvement in steam-heating apparatus combined with a range



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1 EDWARD M. DEEY.

Steam Heating Apparatus Combined with a Range, N0 122,710. Patented.1an.16,1872.

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` Steam Heating Apparatusl Combined wtha Range.

No. 122,710; 4 Patenteddams; 1872.

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IMPROVEMENT INSTEAM-HEATING APPARATUS COMBINED WITH A RANGE.

Specification describing certain Improvements in Heating, Ventilating, and Cooking Apparatus for Dwellings, invented by ED- WARD MoRTrMi-LR DEEY, of the city, county, and State of New York.

The obj ect of 1n y invention is to supply dwellings with a pleasant and healthy atmosphere at the least possible expense. This is done by the introduction of pure cold air int-o an airchamber, where it is heated without contact of red-hot or superheated surfaces by means of iire, Water, and steam, and by means of a-ir and steam-pipes is conducted to the apartments to be heated, and inducted into the rooms by steam-drums placed in front of the hot-air registers, the steam-drum serving` also to radiate heat and supply vapor of water to the room. The re in the grate is surrounded with corrugated Water-backs, which receive and transmit its heat through hot water, steam-pipes, and steam-chests arranged in the air-chamber, and thus, by the aid of a hot-air box, (through which the Hue passes at the lower part ofthe air-chamber,) the air is heated to about 2000, and this temperature is maintained as it passes through the air-tubes by means ofthe contained steam-pipes and steam-drum. This mode utilizes nearly all the heat produced by the fuel consum ed, and does not vitiate the atmosphere in the process. In addition it may be used in connection with a range by omitting the side water-backs and adjusting a cooking apparatus in their place. The room is ventilated by means of a register near the ceiling in the chimney, and by another near the iioor opening into a cold-air tube leading to the hot-air chamber. Water is supplied to the waterbacks by means of a reservoir, and the height to which boiling water ascends in the pipes is determined by a floating cock in the reservoir. A boiler may be connected with the waterback by a pipe, and the water heated by a spiral steam-pipe passing through it and terminating in a steam-chest. The boiler may be used as a reservoir. The Water-backs are so arranged as that their lowest parts, where the supply-pipes enter, cannot be made red hot by the tire in the grate or endanger explosion from superheated steam. The steam-pipes enter as many steam-chests as there are tloors to be heated, so that each iioor may have its proporwater-backs; G C, registers for regulating the current of hot air around the ovens D, or for shutting it oft'both grate and oven; E F, smokepipes leading to smoke-box f. G is the hotair chamber, from which a nal smoke-pipe, f, leads into the chimney. H H are Water-supply pipes for the water-backs B B N, leading from thekitchen-boiler I and from the reservoir K, both of which (I K) are supplied with -cold water through the pipes L M, and provided with iioating stop-cocks g g. N is a water-back, for which cooking apparatus may be substituted if preferred. O 0 are pipes ascending from the Water-backs to the steamchest Q Q in the upper part of the hot-air chamber G. R R are safety-valves in the steam-chest; S S, steam-pipes-passin g through hot-air tubes T T to upper rooms, where steampipe S enters steam-drum U and thence a place 'of condensation and discharge in the chimney or elsewhere. V v are hot-water pipes which pass from the water-back B up through the boiler I, and discharge into the steam-chest Q. W is a tube for introducing cold air from Without the dwelling through the lower part of the hot-air chamber and discharging it at the upper part, so that it may fall among the hot water and steam pipes, and, after being heated, pass through the hot-air tubes T T, in connection with the contained steam-pipes S S, to the rooms to be heated. X is a cold-air tube extending from the lower part of each room to the hot-air chamber G. Y is a coldair register, and Z a hot-air register.

Bythis arrangement apartments are supplied with air containing all its normal elements. The air in the room is made to circulate, the warmth is agreeable, and the air is not vitiated by the admixture of :noxious gases Water and steam pipes O O, V o, and S S S, steam-chests Q Q, drum U, oven D, boilers N and I, reservoir K, cold and hot air pipes W T T X, and hotar chamber G, all constructed, arranged, and operating substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my signature this 27th day of November, 1871.

EDWARD MORTIMER DEEY.

Witnesses ARTHUR NEILL,

JOHN CANNING. (147) 

